John and Catherine Griffiths with a young girl, in a photograph
taken in
Slater Studios of Llandudno around 1890. As far as I know, there was
only one daughter, Mary, who was born in 1855, and this girl looks too
young. John was a Slate miner born
in Caernarvonshire around 1824. Catherine was also born in
Caernarvonshire, around 1826. Their son Richard married an orphan girl
Margaret Ann Roberts in Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1881, where the whole
family was living. Richard was a Slate miner also, one of few who
worked in an Underground Slate mine, rather than the above ground
quarry. The family lived in Blaenau Ffestiniog between 1871 and
1891, on Tabernacle Terrace near the quarry at first and then they
moved down to Cwm Bowydd road a bit down the hill. In the 1891 Census,
Catherine is living as a widow "on her own means" on Cwm Bowydd Road
and her son, Morris, was living with his family next door. Views of the town they lived in can be found HERE